CAIR wants to silence dissenting viewpoints

The Iowa chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations Iowa Chapter (CAIR-IA) is advising their members to shut down an event held by the Cedar Valley Patriots for Christ, referring to it as “hateful toward Islam and Muslims.” The event, according to the Facebook invitation, features “Author and Historian Bill Federer” who has intensely studied the Qur’an and Islam.

Cedar Valley Patriots for Christ founder Judd Saul, also the director of Trevor Loudon’s films, told the author that his organization exists to “bring truth to the lies presented by the left.” He further stated that his group “will not be intimidated.”

Here is the text of the invitation:

Cedar Valley Patriots for Christ is proud to bring Author and Historian Bill Federer to Waterloo for a special event!

Bill Federer is a nationally known speaker, best selling author and president of Amerisearch, Inc., a publishing company dedicated to researching America’s noble heritage. As an accomplished historian, he has published many books including What Every American Needs to Know About the Qur’an – A History of Islam & the United States and Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic. His radio show called The American Minute features historical events “on this day in history”. Possessing a near encyclopedic knowledge of American and European history, his talks on Islam give a fascinating perspective on Islam’s 1400 year war with the West.

Bill be speaking on the truth and history of Islam. This is something that every American needs to hear.

The event is free of charge and we encourage you to bring your friends, family, and pastors.

CAIR is not impressed with the event and is calling on their members to contact the venue and get the event shut down. While nobody is asking CAIR to agree with Bill Federer or the Cedar Valley Patriots for Christ, the idea that CAIR’s default impulse is to shut down dissenting viewpoints is contrary to the spirit of the First Amendment. The better approach would be to read and seek to understand Bill Federer’s research and to dispute what CAIR believes to be false via a civil debate.

Watch a video of Bill Federer discussing his findings on Islam. This author would invite CAIR to respectfully address the author’s points.

The Hammond Family

LINK TO PETITION HERE

There is an incredibly sick affront to justice happening right now, under all of our noses. A father and son, Dwight and Steven Hammond, continue to sit in prison as victims of a massive federal bureaucracy that has been hounding the family, as well as other ranching families, for decades. The Hammond family happens to own property desired by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and have been pressured for decades to sell their land to the federal government following in the footsteps of their neighbors, who all eventually gave in.

After numerous legal battles ostensibly designed to beat the family into submission, the ranchers were charged with arson under the “Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996” years after setting two fires that spread to “public” lands in 2001 (spread onto 139 acres of vacant land – which ultimately improved the land) and 2006, an emergency backfire set in order to protect their property in 2006 during a lightening storm which spread and burned an acre of adjoining “public” land.

According to a website dedicated to preparedness,

Backfiring is a way of reducing the amount of flammable material by starting small fires along a manmade or natural firebreak in front of the main fire. These small fires are started on the side of the firebreak closest to the oncoming fire. These small fires are designed to ‘burn back towards the main fire front’ and are usually burning and traveling against ground level winds. This widens the firebreak and helps to suppress the main fire by removing the fuel.

With this in mind, consider recent news stories where controlled fires set by the government ended up spreading to other areas:

• Rabbit Creek wildfire continues to burn in Prince Albert National Park
• Wildfire inside P.A. National Park started as controlled burn
• Forest fire burning near Hyampom
• More than 700 acres have been destroyed by a wildfire.

The forest fires that sometimes result from controlled fires are not unusual, and when the government is the perpetrator, there are no charges of arson.

The documentation to pardon Dwight and Steven Hammond is in the White House as of May 19 2018.